84 Lumber’s Super Bowl commercial tells the story of a Mexican mother and her daughter making the trip to the United States border and, ultimately, opening a large door in the wall at the border to gain entry into the country. As this journey plays out, we also get clips of a construction crew, working […]
Considering unconventional expressions of love that are shown in advertisements made me think about the number of food commercials I see that are romantically or sexually charged. Though Sandoval encourages us to re-think how we perceive love, and asks us to imagine this experience existing outside of a romantic couple in a relationship, I wonder if she […]
The Super Bowl is one of the most coveted advertising slots in the year- and companies shell out big bucks in order to get their product advertised to the large audience (some of whom tune in just for the fun and interesting commercials). I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year, or catch up on […]
Club Penguin is a game invented by Disney, primarily geared towards children. After creating and naming their own personal penguin, players roam around the town completing different games, making friends, adopting pets, and attempting to tip the iceberg. There are two different game player modes- one where players can type anything they want their penguin […]
Married to the Eiffel Tower, and objectsexuality, is certainly something that has forced me to think about how I perceive the limits of sexuality. Before I saw the movie I assumed there was no way this form of sexual expression could be real. However, after seeing the way the characters of the film respond to […]
Married to the Eiffel Tower shed light on a sexuality I had rarely heard of- objectum sexuality. The women portrayed in the documentary felt a sexual and intimate connection to physical structures such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, and more. The only time I had previously seen someone with objectum sexuality was on […]
The documentaries we viewed this week were about sexualities, and how people identify based on their sexual orientation, whether it be lack of a sexual expression or activity, as in (A)Sexual, or the object of their sexual drive and attraction, as with Married to the Eiffel Tower. Both of these concepts, asexuality and objectumsexuality, are […]
In 2008, Jen Ackerman spent a month at Kentucky State Reformatory to document images of mentally ill people being taken care of by guards and administrators inside. The images are extremely brutal, showing people be denied basic human contact in their most vulnerable moments, showing mutilated, destroyed bodies in inhumane conditions. And yet, the images […]
To my understanding of Spivak’s piece, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, she discusses the way in which Western academics investigate other cultures, but particularly, in the studies of the most disenfranchised or powerless group of the social hierarchy. Spivak works with postcolonial thought, where she criticizes the work of predominantly white male academic’s depiction of the […]
I recently watched Persepolis, a French-Iranian film based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi with the same name. The film was is an autobiographical cartoon about Satrapi’s life living in Iran through a revolution and a war, living in Germany as an Iranian teen, moving back to Iran after the war ended, and eventually […]
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